I feel like the AI is unduly helped by the format here. I don't actually consume a whole book one quote at a time, and that is also not the reading experience the author wrote for.
For example, with the literary fiction one, the story about the boy and the church feels sort of complete, like a micro-story, and I think that might be why I prefer it in isolation. You also don't need to understand anything about these characters before reading, they are just the boy and the grandfather, and that is all they are and all you need to know. But with the quote fro...
First, I'm not a therapist, and I don't have OCD so free free to disregard, but I had a thought that might be useful.
Your compulsion is you worrying about X risk, but specifically not doing anything real about X risk, right? Like, the problem is not that you are working on X risk too hard, the problem is that your worries prevent you from doing much of any sort of work. I would try to concentrate on noticing that difference. Like, say you don't worry about X risk for a day, does that mean you did less on it? If not, then your worries probably don't do anyt...
Maybe there's some fancy statistical methods that mitigate this, but from what I know about study design, if 9 women are happy because their period is more manageable/gone, and one woman feels very down because of the hormones, that might show up as 'no effect on mood', and then this gets communicated as 'it definitely does not have an effect on mood, we did proper studies' even if there is a sizable minority that gets reliably suicidal on it. Not sure if there is a name for this, but I always try to keep this in mind for any drug. Humans are sometimes just very different in how they metabolize things.